An independent journal devoted to 'the interests of Reynoldsville' Published weekly. One Dollar per year strictly in advance. VOLUME 13. REYNOLDSVILLE, PENN'A., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1904. NUMBER 14. COMMISSIONERS SALE SEATEDJLAND5. tn pnnoiiiiii-e of nn Art nf Awmbly the rmiiiiilwiiiiiiM will niter fors-ile, at their of fice In Hnmlivtlle. I':i.. on Irldny, September 13rd, 1004, At inonn'i'liM'k. 11. m., the fntlnwln tracts of seati'il tmiiK piiiiiutsi'il ly the Connlv t'nm-tnlmlDiit'i-x i 1 he TiiMi-in-vr's miIi'x of t'Mrt: Acrcv ViiIiic. Nnme nf Owner. District. II. I- i I .TO Mm. M. ,t. Nciile Itm Hun Mln. 5? :! ItiM-il. WriniT.v lli'iu liii'klll TH Ml John Miller ... (imklll Hnrf. S 171 Mrs. I'liiinlr Hiilr...lli-nil'Pmin 1'4 M Jolm ! Mct'almnnt Lot "1 l.lvn (' l.iirnin Mi-Oilmtint. II. A b. 2 Andic Nelwin Perry It. L. Nel.in lohnmnn IVrry Lot SO I nun- Mud I'erry 1 w Jiiiip Orlndor Wlntlnvi- Mill. TH Mln. 1011 2 Lilt Lot Mil. HH) (lonl'iii White Wliwlow l.twn rimiioii itit While... wiuhIuw 711 Miov K. Ih'iiwt Wliwlnw Ki M :m 'jwi A. II. Mllllrou winwow .1. Henry Kershaw... Wlnlnw C. s. Mimes Wlnnlow (Hunt Klimli'H Wlnslnw M Ifltii.-l n'Uiicn Wlnilnw 1,,-tvw il.illnwpll Wlnilow li. . Miller Wlimlow NEW TON WKRMTKK. A l. II A K. IIAKVK.V I) IIAriiH. II fi I. 1 24 AtleM: 1 otiniy I'oinmiHMioiiflrtt. V flu iiiiaitii. Clerk AllKUit II. WO'. T L. JOHXSTON. JU3TICK OP THK TRACK. Office four doni-a from lion lliiuw, Wet tEiiynoUlMVlllc, Tit. piUKSTKK BKOS-, IT N I ) K I IT A K E I W . muck mill whin- fiuit'ml i'ar. Minn xtravl. Ui-yniilU-.villc, I'ti J H MUG II US. CNDKKTAKINO AXD PICTURE FRAMING. The M M. tin 1 1 11 1 Lesuue has lioen tested hiiiI found all rlaht. liicin't form of In surance, secure a contract. Woodward Miillillnir, lte.viinhli.vUlu I'll. yilE CLARION STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. Furnishes professional training for teacher t'ropurpn young pdoplc. fur oulloge Offers ex ec I li -n I (no i 1 i 1 li' for go ne ral ed u cut.ion. KKKK luition for pros pective touch. irs. Hoard, room rent, iiivl laundry for school .Vi'Bi'. 41 w.'. lo.. $127.00; for 'full term, III weeks, $40.00. Slut ion of Piithhiirg, tSummer villo & Clarion Railroad direct ly opposite Normal laundry. Fall term opens Tticbday, Sep ' lumber (I, 11IH4. For further particulars address PRINCIPAL NORMAL SCHOOL, Clarion, Pa. 1vNTKAL STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. J. U. I'l.ll KINGF.U, lrlu. lock haven. i'a. Fall Term 15 Wkrks Bkoiius Sei temher 5th, 1904. Lust yenrwiiN the mout HiiccoBsfnl In t lie hlKiory of thlH ImiHirtanl ac'lioul ' alioiitiou HtiidiiniH. liiM!illoii anionic the innlliiliillin of (Vlllnil IVlumyl vunla, with line wiitur, Nplendld biilld Iiikh and vxcelliiut minlinry I'liiidltloim limkt! It un Idi'iil tralnliiK wdinol. In uddlllon to Iih Normal bourne It iiIho Iihh an exi'tillent Cnllt'Ke Hruparalory liiiliartnieut In (duirve of an honor Siaduate of I'rliiwlon. It hUo han iiiai'tmeiitH In MiihIii, KIM'ut Ion and HiiHliiemi. It him a well educated fac ulty, line gymnasium and athletlo Ueld. Addren for llluHtrated catalog, THE PRINCIPAL. j Don't Condemn HimI j II EN you see a man who is apparently a chronic ! kicker who seems to have dyspepsia in the acute form and who seems to be a confirmed pessimist don't condemn him. Chances are he's simolv not wearing Selz They fit so E Z they make see them at HARMON'S One Price SHOE STORE The place where a child can buy us cheap as a man. a TEKSB IS KOTHHTO l.tmn, poi flOUIRDSf A fnmnr Nn1anc, Of a promlnont locttirpr of Ixinilon nn acqiiitlntniioe wiy: "On one occiihIoii be wns the KiK'Ht of a friend of 111 1 lie, it btifiy Liverpool nierelinnt, nml when the popular liM'turer returned from the bull he hmkiM for nil Korta of InipoHMlhle dlHhea ntul llipild I'onriM'tioim piH tillnr to nlmtiilncrH. a deiiuiiul whlrli Koine whnt lipm't the routine of the liotiae bold. When In bed bis nervous irin pernment wn tried; he could not hour the tk-kliitf of the vloeka. ho lie pitrmU'd the hotme In the mnnll hours of the niornliiK nnd stoppei them nil. In con sequence of this the servnnts had to he roused by violent bell HiikIiik. lint the guest wns not to be (IImU'oskciI, ho he a roue nRitln nnd ordered the servants back to their rooms nnd locU.'d them In nnd then went buck to bed." A Relle off Dnrtmrlam. In ancient times It was the custom of the victors In a battle to decorate their doorposts with the skulls of the van quished. With the ndviinee of civiliza tion of course we ndflonxer continue this bit of bnrlmrlty, but the custom has not been nllowotl to drop iiltoKether. us Is seen by the stone balls which are often set on KittcpoMts, a relic of 11 harharo'.is Idea of loiur hko. In certain par; of Afrlcn the skulls nre still used as decorations. Whole vllhmes may lie seen with the doorposts of the houses surmounted In this ki'cwsoiiic fashion. Plads Some Drawbaoks. "I suppose you enjoy the freedom from enro that a fortune brliiKH?" "Well," nnswerod Mr. Cuiiirox. "It's good to have money. But If I hadn't got rich I wouldn't hnve.lmd to study French or - lenrn to pronounce the names of Wngner'a operas." Washing ton Star. Rvn, Tramp Honestly, sir. I don't know where my next meal Ik coinln' from. Citizen (grainy) Neither do I! It '. certainly not coining from me! Old Reliable POWDER Always the Best sr'1 I n lf, FN 1 1 ILHIll ffeMHtlMflW l.lll KiHln Mnw iM plftnnc soidnu wbaa Cnuaed. Purr ows, Prrraauwa. f. Wanted! Girl to learn winding. Also two good boys. Enterprise Silk Co. 1 J Shoes. your feet glad, Ask to HOUSEHOLD LACQUER. R rMterlnt arlflnal lustra and ten to eld wra. cntcaaar ad Ud.d lurnltiira. woorftvnrk llnor.. . . . ... ILaZ uT. "'" wr" nwiKa. it will a 01 fade, tura white or crack. caa appy RET ' " ,''ht V,ry W"y '0, v,rJ,h,"l- ' 1 A.?9UE.?ET ' old ln convenient packages reedy- for m la Light Oji, berk Oak, Mehuj.ny. CheVry, rValaut, RmwMd, Rich Red, MuiOmn, and "Cleer". It U TRANSLUCENT, boo I aaytta'lac oa "hi a?ket'"'"bl' 8u,r,ur oiaU " m,rU Aak for Calor Cad anal Inatruotlv be aalafi 'TMt DAINTY PCCORATOR.'" - FOR tVALX BY THE KEY8T0NE HARDWARE COMPANY A SNOW EXPERIMENT. fwiin Vapor From the A ! a ( iolphlde off Carboa. Two solid bodies, one yellow, sul phur, the other black, carbon, unite under certnin clrcumstAncea to form a colorless liquid rnlleil sulphide of car bon, which must be handled with much precaution on Account of Its grent ex plosive property. The soluble property of sulphide of rnrbon renders it valua ble to take spots off garments. If Jta odor is more, disagreeable thnn thnt Cf benr.lne or turpp'itijie. It has nt lenst the ndvnntago of being dispelled quick ly ln conseiiiience of the prompt evap oration of the liquid. There Is nothing equal to It to take off spots of paint on clothes. It does not do It, however, without creating grent fear In persons who use It for the first time, for they ee on the very place whore, to their ireat pleasure, the paint had disap peared a lurgo white spot, the nature of which Is hard for them to define, nnd the more they brush the more unsightly nnd the larger thnt white spot grows. Is then tho garment lost? No, for fortunately after a few moments the spot melts away never to show again. It was snow nnd nothing more. The sulphide of carbon in evaporating takes heat from the cloth nnd surrounding air, nnd the result of thnt Is n sudden lowering of temperature sufficient to freeze fhe vnpor of the atmosphere. Without operating on your clothes you may make the experiment In the following way: Fill a small vial with sulphide of carbon, taking great care to do It for from all flame or heated stove. Then clone the bottle with a cork stop per through which you have previously bored n small hole. In this hole place a piece of blotting paper made up Into a small roll. The paper must reach to the bottom 01 the bottle and about an inch nbove the cork. Within fifteen minutes you will see tie outside of this paper covered with snow, the quantity of which gradually ' Increases. The liquid has risen through the pores of the paper as the oil of a lamp through the wick. When It gets to the open air It evnporates, nna water contained In the Biirroundlng atmosphere, being brought to a temperature below 32 de grees, hns been frozen. If you divide the paper outside of the bottle into sev eral pieces you obtain flowers and most cbnrmlng effects. You tuny make the experiment ln summer and ln the full rays of the sun. The result will be obtained then more promptly, evapora tion being more abundant. First Moglei Mad In Pennsylvania. "The first stogie wna made by hand In the wilds of Pennsylvania," said a tobacco man of Allegheny City. "The story which they tell once ln n while in West Virginia nml which must be true Is thnt the long cheroots derived their uamo from the town of Conestoga, l'a. An emigrant train of wagons was finding Its way across the state, and a supply of tobacco was found nt Conostogu. "Tho emigrants got a lot of It, but failed to get nny pipes and so could not smoke unless they made pipes themselves. Necessity la the mother of Invention. You may have heard thnt remark before. Anyhow one of the men rolled a leaf of the tobacco ln bis band nnd wrapped it with another leaf. Thnt wa.i tho first stogio. Oth ers followed his exainplo, and they all called tho article that they made a Vtoga In honor of tho town at which the tobacco was secured. That la said to be the true story of 'how the nnme 'stogie' originated." Louisville Courier Journal.. The Word "Boodle." Late American dictionaries acknowl edge "boodle" oa a word. Dr. Murray quotes from an American paper of 1884, " 'Sinews of war,' 'soap' and other synonyms for campaign boodlo are familiar." There, however, "boo dle" la explained as meaning only "stock in trade," kinship with the Dutch "boedel," a man's stock of busi ness or household goods, being highly probable. Perhaps "boodle," meaning a crowd or pack, as ln the phrase, "the whole boodle (or caboodle) of them," la the same word. In that sense "huddle" is found ln the early seven teenth century. No doubt it la only a coincidence that there is uu old Scotrih word "boddle" or "bodle," meaning a twopenny piece, and de rived from the name of the mint mas ter Bothwell. It's Sometimes That War. Bbe was surprised when she beurd of the engagement, and she showed It. "Why, 1 was perfectly satisfied tn my own mind that you liked Tom bet ter than George," she said. "Well, to tell the truth, I did." re plied the engaged girl. "Iiut you suy you are engaged to George?" "Yes, that's true." "Well. I dou't understand It at all." "Why, it's very simple. You see, George was the one who proposed." Not His Own Boss. "It's ridiculous for a young man to get married as aoou us be comes of age," said the elderly bachelor, 1 "Think so, do you?" said Ilenpeck languidly. s "Of course, Why, he's scarcely old enough to be bla own boas." "Well, be Isn't If be geta married."- Rather Free Mannered. Maurice Hewlett writes of the people f Certaldo, the Italian town where ftoccncclo wns born and lived: "Their women are handsome, as they ought to be, with green eyes, dusky sklus, fair, tangled hnlr. They carry theiuselvi'S bolt upright, like all mountaineers, but with better reason than most, for their figures nre remarkable. The men slug gny songs, are happy nnd free man nered, nnd If lloccneelo Is not nt the bottom of it the mischief Is. I snw here whnt I hnve never seen elsewhere in nil long Italy, a man stop and kiss a girl ln open street. No offense, either. Ho was n baker who cnuie n floury nmorino snw nnd considered the bend of her Industrious hend nnd stooped and kissed her ns Bhe snt sewing nt her door. Her lovers nnd acquaintances about ber snw nothing amiss, nor wns she at all put out. After so flagrant au achievement the madcap went a whole progress of gallantry down the street, none resenting his freedom. He danced with one good wife, chucked another's chin and lifted a third bodily into tba air, ilnglng nil the while." Tho Prescription Rath. The bath bouse nt each of the famous health resorts of Europe Is the most Imposing building ln town, with stately facade and Inviting entrance. Inside are long corridors, Indies to the right and gentlemen to the left, lined with dozens of little cell-like rooms, each containing a bathtub, a couch nnd n thermometer. At the door Is a strong armed masseur. There Is much confer ring between the doctor nnd this at tendant, repented testing of tempera tures nnd mixtures of water in the tub. After the patient gets Into his tub the doctor waits outnlde the door, watch In band, timing the Immersion. Then the masseur gets to work with vigorous rubbing, still timed by the doctor. Final ly the pntleut appears dressed nnd re freshed. The doctor talks diplomatic ally on favorite symptoms, sympa thizes a little, flatters a llttlo more and, with a sweeping bow, hands his victim Into a carriage. Everybody's Maga zine. ' The "Lanarnaa-e off Maele." The best chamber music, like the finest symphonic music, is a sort of transcendental language, which affects the hearer somewhat ln the same way ns the study of astronomy or the high er mathematics their ardent devotees. It suggests the Ineffable and the Infinite perhaps more vividly than nny, other form of nrt. It also evokes ninny other Images nnd thoughts of a definite na ture, but In no two enses are these mental pictures identical. A passage suggesting a sunset to one hearer may call up a battle scene to another. Hut 110 rensomiblo person wishes to force his picture on his neighbor, especially ns the same passage may visualize it self differently to the name hearer on different occasions. From "Diversions of a Music I.over." Tatar and Tartar. - "Turtur" la a word which gives an Illustration of etymology gone nstray. The nnme "Tutur" (as It Is correctly spelled) Is really derived from a Tura nian root meaning "to stretch," nud hence "to draw the bow" or "to pitch tents." Hut when the hordes of Tatars burst upon eastern Europe from the Asiatic steppes ln the thirteenth cen tury the minds of students turned to the ninth chapter of Revelation. The Tatar Invasion was Interpreted as a ful fillment of the prediction of the open ing of the bottomless pit A contempo rary chronicler writes of "this detest able satnnlc people Issuing forth Uko demons let loose from Tartarus, so that they are fitly named Tartar!." Thns the misconception took root. Albinos. The human species offers frequent examples of Individuals attacked by albinism. It la found oftenest amoug men of the black race. . White albino have skin of 0 peculiar paleness, blond hair, white or colorless beard, pink iris and red pupils. The negro albino has skin of variable aspect In some cases It la white as milk, and ln others It Is like wax, or, rather, resembles the bue of a corpse. Eaar Tluiekeeplna. Captain Cuttle's famous watch, which would keep "correct" time only by various shakings and shifting of the bands during the day, is matched by A Yorkshiremau's clock. He resented the Imputation that there was anything wrong with It, "It goes reet eneu for thlm that knau bow t' read It," ho said. "When Its bands are at 12, it strikes 2, and then Aw knnw It's half past 7." Wise Connsol. . "Don't be too anxious to get a hus band," said the wise matron. "Don't go round bunting for one." "Think I should just sit down and wait for one, eh?" replied the maiden. "Yea, for you'll alt up and wait for one often enough after you've got blm."-Pbllndelphla Ledger. Corroborated. Jones It Is Just Impossible for me to keep a lend pencil. People are always borrowing, you know, and they always forget to return. Brown Why. I never have any trouble. Bee, I've got n whole rest pocketful of pencils, Jones Doesn't that prove Just what I said? Boston Transcript A CURIOUS PHENOMENON. The ftinaulnr Nnlaes at Nakoos, 01 the lied Sen. A singular phenomenon occurs nn tli borders of the Hed sen nt a place mile h'nkous, where Intermittent uuilci ground sounds have been heard for 11 Unknown number of centuries. It I situated nt about half it mile illstaii from the shore, whence n long reach n amid ascends rapidly to n heliiht of ,'1 ) feet. This reach Is nhout Wl feet wld and resembles nn ninphltheater, belli walled by low rocks. The sntitiils con Ing up from the ground at this pine recur nt Intervals of about 1111 lioni . They nt first resemble n low tnttrmui but ere long there Is heiinl a lou knocking spuicwhnt like the strokes 0 a bell nnd which at the end of nboii five minutes becomes so strong ns t agitate the sand. The explanation of this curious phi noinenon given by the Arabs is Ili;i there Is n convent under the Krotm here, nnd that these sounds are thon of the bell which the monks ring fo prayers. 80 they call It Nakous, wide! means n bell. The Arabs nlltrni tint the noise so frightens their camel when they bear It ns to render then furious. Philosophers attribute tit sound to suppressed volcanic act Ion -prohnhly to the bubbling of gns tr vapors underground. Newcastle (Eng lund) Chronicle. THE BARN DOOR SKATE. A Landlubber's Description off Thll Peculiar Fleh. The barn door skate beggar's, de scription. I never could tell whether he was looking nt me with his eyes or his breathe holes. He Is a bottom fish nnd flat like a flounder. He hat triangular body, the npex of which forms the Biiout; opposite bis snout are his tntl and a few extra piece of his overcoat, which kind nature h 11 tagged on to hi 111 ln case be gels torn and has to be mended. His tall hi em bellished with a few spines this 1 know for a fact. He has a couple of eyes a little way back of his snout, nnd right bifk of those aro a couple of holes Hint extend completely through lilni. These boles connect with bis lungs, or what ever be uses to breathe with, nnd have an uncomfortable way of looking nt you nt the same time us his eyes. He has a mouth, too, but It Is on the under side of him nnd convenient foi business. It Is a funny thing, with spines on the lips, nnd when you pull the lower Jnw the upper Jaw movee with It u sort of automatic trap, no! unlike what you can see In any t.'ti cent restaurant. This Is a landlub ber's description, but It Is enough. Country Life In America. THE WORD DOILY. Orlclnallr It Wna the Nnme of Fab. rlo For Bummer Wenr. Though the word dolly Is now re trlctcd ln meaning to the small cloth that covers a dessert plate. It had originally a much wider slgnlficntlou It seems to have been introduced 111 a cheap and fashionable fubrlc, special ly for summer wear, about the lattei part of tho seventeenth century, foi Dryden speaks of "do I ley petticoats," and Steele ln the Tatler mentions "a doyley suit." The mimo bus been long connected with a Loudon firm, trading ns linen drnpecs, In Upper Wellington street Strand, who occupied tho great old corner bouse next to Hnd.toH'11, tin bunker, from Queen Anne's time to 1850. Though their name happen tc be the same as thut of the stuff, then Is no authority for linking the two to gether. Wedgwood rejects derivation nnd suggests the Dutch dwnele, a towel, or better still, tho Swiss dwuhell, n nap kin. The dolly Itself used to be culled a "dolly napkin" till shortened by cus tomary usage. London Standard. His Person Sncred. The person of the Korean emperor It acred. If human hand touches him It Is saciilego, and the punishment foi sacrllego Is death. If the emperoi touches a subject he becomes sncred. The emperor's name must bo mention ed only ln whispers. His portrait li never painted except after death. Then It is worshiped. Once tv foreign ambassador sought to present the em peror with the portrait of his sover eign. But the minister for foreign uf fairs regarded the offer as an outrage, and the portrait was never accepted The emperor's power la boundless; bit word Is law, and he owns everything land and people, without restriction. A simple wish Is a command. hopplnat In the Philippine. A traveler ln the Philippines writes: "There Is no place where shopping U easier thnn In Manila, for It Is almost absolutely Impossible to buy anything you require. You cun nevertheless pur chase, If you are so Inclined, every thing you do not want and soiled nt that at four times or bo Its normal valuo." NotUluH DeUulte. Her Mother Mr. Slouiun bus been tomlug to see you for quite a long while, Maude. What are bla Inten tions? Do you know? She Well, I think he lutenda to keep on coming. Philadelphia Proa. Rosenth's B!ns;lih, Kossuth had n remarkable mastery f English. This story shows how be trenutbened bis knowiedae of our dif ficult tongue. Speaking at Concord, j Mass., Kossuth wished to express the figure of the Austrian engle rending the young freedom of Hungary. The Word escaped him. Htopplug for a mo ment In the full flight of eloquence, he nsked n matter of fnct American who I snt near him, "Whnt you any when ' ninn tear tils coat?" "Hole," was the I reply. Thnt word did not satisfy him, I nnd Ralph Wnldo Emerson, who had overhenrd the question, whispered j "rent," with poetic sympnthy for cih phony, nnd the stately sweep of the , sentence wns completed. He learned tho language after his arrest In 18117, when be was sentenced In 118 to three years' Imprisonment, during a part of which he was cut off from nil commu- . ulcatlon with his friends and wns dix nled the use of pen nnd Ink and even of books. In tlie second yenr he was1 ' allowed to reud, but as all political books were Interdicted he selected nn English grnmmnr, Wnlker's pronounc ing dictionary and Shakespeare. With out knowing a single word be begnn to read "The Tempest." He wns engaged . for a fortnight In getting through the i first pnge. Whr Jnpnn Has No Fence Posts. j In Japan when a farmer permits a telegraph or telephone pole to be erect ed on his land he hns mndc a great con ; cession to modern reform. Only the ex ceedingly rich hnve fences nround their 1 fnrnis in Jnpan, not because of the cost of the fence, but because of the value I of the square inches the posts and plck 1 ets would consume. If n border Is dc- ' sired nround a field It Is customary to ' plant mulberry trees. The total area of ground In Japan thus devoted to the ' silkworm tree, which otherwise would 1 be taken up with fences, amounts to 1 about lllO.OUO acres. This has no refer I ence to the mulberry farms and groves, 1 the nren for which Is over three times ' as much. The fact thnt a Japanese I farmer Is forced to figure on the amount of ground a fence post would occupy nnd the Interesting fact that the government ln Its statistical enu merations hns hnd the areas covered by Individual mulberry trees on fnrm boundaries carefully computed demon strates the grent vnlue of arable land. Booklovers" Magazine. A Hnndirrltlna- Rxpert on Poe, In nn odd way a Bnltimoro journalist bus settled for himself the still disput ed question of Edgar Allan Toe's per sonal character and habits. Hnvlng several autograph letters of Poe'B, let ters written lu the youth, the mnnboid nnd the later life of the unhappy poet 'be cut off their signatures and submit ted them for nnnlysls to a handwriting expert The expert reported on them ns fol lows: "These letters wero written nt different periods ln tho life of the same person. They Indicate a tempernment at once Imaginative and methodical, firm nerves, grent courage and aesthetic tustcs. You ask If they point to drunk enness or alcoholism. I reply that most decidedly they do not." Decidedly Cool. A friend of tho late Bishop Hunting ton was spending a Sunday ln Ed hi' burgh nnd followed the crowd to the church of a celebrated preacher. At the closo of the service he said to the clergyman, "That was a remarkably flno sermon." The minister, puffed up with pride, said, "Thank you, thank you." "But" euld the Boston man, "I have heard it before; It 1b one of BUh op Huntington' sermons." "Ah, yea, I dare say, to be sure, but Huntington could never bave got It off as I did." Tho anecdote is related by the Con gregntlonnlist, whose only comment la that "for consistent and unblushing plagiarism this beat the record." ' Kllllnar n Fashion. The muff reached its highest point ln the reign of Louis XV. Then fashion declared for a cloth' muff Instead of fur, and the furriers made a great up roar. They petitioned the pope to cx- commuulcate the wearer of a cloth muff, but to no. purpose. Finally some Ingenious merchant bribed the heads man to carry a cloth muff on execution day. Tho women shrank from such as sociation, and tho fur won the day. ' Ileffreehmenta In Chnrch. Family pews were Introduced at the beginning of the seyenteeutb century. Some of these bad a table and fire place, also curtains and window blinds bo ob to secure the utmost privacy. This led to abuses. In some of the closed, pew card playing was not uncommon, and tho tedium of a long service was sometimes relieved by light refresh mentReliquary. All For the Beat. "Why do the roses fudo slowly iwuy?" Bhe Inquired poetically. "Well," replied the baldbeaded young man, "when you think It over It's all for tho best. It's more comfortable to bavo them fudo slowly away than to go off nil of a sudden, like a torpedo.' Reformed. ratlenco Peggy used to aiug all over the bouse before she married that man, Putrloe So she did, dear, but you know be married ber to reform her. Yonkers Statesman, BRILLIANT SWORDPLAY. Itnlr tu the Home of Fenclns na n Rennet! Art. Although the Germans were always redoubtable nt the rougher games of swordsmanship, !t Is lu Italy that we find the first development of ' that nimbler, more regulated, more cun ning, better controlled piny which we bave learned to associate with the term fencing. It Is from Itnly thnt fencing ns a refined nrt first spread over Europe, not from Spain, as it has been anserted by many writers. It Is in the Italian rapier play of the late sixteenth century thnt wc And the foundations of fencing ln the modem sense of tho word. The Italians If wc take their early bonks as evidence and the fact thnt their phraseology of fence was adopted by ull Europe were the first to perceive, as soon as the prob . leni of armor breaking ceased to be the most Important one In a fight, the superior capabilities for elegant slaughter possessed by the point as compared with tho edge. They ac cordingly reduced the brendth of their sword, mod I Mod the hilt portion there of to admit of a readier thrust action and relegated the cut to quite a second nry position In their system. With this lighter weapon they devised In course of time that brilliant, cunning, cutlike play known as rapier fence. The rnpler wns ultimately adopted everywhere by men of courtly habit, but In England at lenst it was not accepted without murmur nnd vitu peration from the older fighting class of Bwordsmen. Cornhlll. MEASURE HIS FINGER. If It la I.ona-er Than Yonre, He Will Rnle You When You're Wed. ' It la rather lute in the day for fills bit of advice, but the girl who thinks of mnrriago should take the pi m no tion of first measuring the forefinger of her lover with ber own before sho commits herself Irrevocably. If h'is forefinger happens to bo longer than ber own she would best reject him, for she will never rule ber own house hold, the rule being that whichever has the longer forefinger becomes the ruling power ln this home. One en gaged girl, upon being told of this test, carefully measured lingers nt once, nnd, upon finding thnt her fiance's finger wns much longer thnn her own, stoutly declared thnt she didn't enro. "She didn't want to rule the house anyway 1" The mnn breath ed freely once more. It wns this very same girl, however, who was observed to muke special and strenuous efforts to set her own right foot upon the church step before tho groom, nnd to place this same foot upon the carpet before his! It is a suro sign that which ever sets foot first upon the church step and upon the carpet at the altar will rule tho house! Which offers a solution of the "long est forefinger" problem! Avoid as you would the pestilence tho tying of your shoe in a currlage upon your wed ding day. It is "unlucky!" Exchange. London Doctors' Fees. Discussion by Loudon newspapers of doctors' fees hns brought to light some curious information. "I know a mnn," one doctor Is quoted ns saying, "who hns a guinea practice lu Hurley street, a five shilling practice ln Kensington and a sixpenny practice ln Seven Dials." In Clnpton, a poor quarter of London, fee of twopence (1 cents) are enld to be not unknown. One newspaper re marks: "Of the twopence fee It might be said thnt It brings sickness within the reach of all. In Clapton, at any rate, there Is no excuse or justification for nny one being well." ThlB same newspaper says, "Now that Ants nre so fnshlonnhle the doc tor's difficulty in guessing the pnylng ability of his patient Is enormously in creased, flats being alike the refuge of the wealthy and the Indigent" A Bit of n Blow. "I suppose you have encountered worse gules than this?" nsked nn in quisitive passenger of the sailor mnn during a very moderate bit of a blow. "This yere nlu't a gale," responded the salt. "Why, I was onct lu the bay o' Biscay when the wind blew ull tho paint off the bulwarks. It took four on us to 'old the captain's 'at on , 'is 'end, and even then nil the ankers wus blown off 'Is buttons. That wus a blow for yer. Why, even" But by this time the carious passen ger realized that he was being guyed and be did not give the imaginative tur the chuuee of finishing his interesting narrative. Rla Bravery. "Oh, George," sighed the romuntld girl, "I wish yo wero like the old time knights. I wish you'd do some thing bruve to show your love foH me." "Gracious," cried her fiance, "baven'tJ I agreed to marry you, and me only getting :;0 a week'" Exchuuge. Genial Jane. Jane After looking at me for a mln ut or two Ilnrry Bald, "Do you know. Jane, thut a veil improves you great ly?" Carrie Net very complimentary. Jane No, but what pleased me wu the fine taut be employed lu lmpartlu;; an unpleusuut thought Boston Trim 1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers